Hot Dog Cart In Sto. Dgo. part 2

samanasuenos

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Oct 5, 2005
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Marketing and Cultural Differences

Your ideas sound fine in the USA/Canada, but you're looking at a very different market here. You need to visit and watch your market for a while. Make no assumptions based on what works at home, okay?

As for the hotdogs, I do NOT think that will work. UNLESS you give free ones to the really HOT ladies. AND if you have an autographed photo of some famous NY-Dom or someone like Sammy Sosa, no scratch Sam. Anyway, you're going to have to start a trend here, lots of work. Lotsa risk.

Finally, on catering and special events, you had better know some VIP somewhere, in most countries it is really who you know for catering...

I wish you luck. If you want to meet an established need, go to a small/med town and sell imported hair care products for black hair. Your market will spend more on hair than on food.

Oh, and to sell anything in the DR, you need MUCHO MUELA...the gift of gab

Good luck!
 

liam1

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Jun 9, 2004
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it can work! my suggestion is locate your hot-dog stand near a busy night club, and start working around 10PM and work as long as the club is open.

those who know Boca Chica can tell you how busy the Chimmy guys are. you always gotta wait in line to get hamburgers (their hot-dogs suck). every night as i go to sleep (3-4 AM) i grab a hamburger or two and pay 60 pesos for each. they're not the greatest hamburgers in the world, but they're only available food at 3 AM, and i'm drunk. and i don't know how much the locals are paying for them, but they eat them like crazy too.